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April 13, 2023<\/strong><\/a> 2nd International Symposium on the Nak Chung Thun Archive at USC<\/p>\n

April 5, 2023<\/strong><\/a> Archipelagic\/s with Candace Fujikane, Keith Camacho, Jodi Kim, Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi<\/p>\n

February 8, 2023<\/strong><\/a> Menace of Empire with Moon-Ho Jung and Professor Sean Fraga<\/p>\n

February 22, 2023 <\/strong><\/a>Transborder LA with Yu Tokunaga and Professor Genevieve Carpio<\/p>\n

February 15, 2023<\/strong><\/a> Converging Empires with Andrea Geiger<\/p>\n

November 18, 2022<\/strong><\/a> Book Talk – Remaindered Life With Neferti X. M. Tadiar<\/p>\n

November 11, 2022 <\/strong><\/a>Gaze Back: A Poetry Reading & Q&A with Singaporean Poet, Marylyn Tan and Brian Bernards<\/p>\n

November 2nd, 2022<\/strong><\/a> The Archive Arrives: Considerations in Resurrecting Colonial Non-fiction Films<\/p>\n

October 26th, 2022<\/a> <\/strong>BENDING AESTHETICS TO A MORE-THAN-HUMAN ASKESIS: THE COLLAPSE OF ABSTRACTED CREATIVTY<\/p>\n

October 7th, 2022<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Transpacific Studies Fall Symposium<\/p>\n

May 20-21 and June 10-11, 2022<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on “Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two Part International Workshop”<\/p>\n

April 22-24, 2021<\/a><\/strong> – Society of Sinophone Studies Conference<\/p>\n

April 5th, 2022<\/a><\/strong> on “Navigating CHamoru Poetry” by Craig Santos Perez
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March 3, 2022<\/a><\/strong> on “Barangay: an offshore poem” – Adrian De Leon in conversation with Craig Santos Perez<\/p>\n

February 4, 2022<\/strong><\/a> on “Hawai’i is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific,” a Book Talk with Nitasha Tamar Sharma<\/p>\n

November 3rd, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> Veronika Kusumaryati and Ernst Karel on “\u202fExpedition Content Colloquium”<\/p>\n

October 29th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> Viet Thanh Nguyen on “SEEK, MEMORY”<\/p>\n

October 29th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –\u00a0<\/strong> Shao-yun Yang on “\u202fRethinking Race and Ethnicity in Imperial China”<\/p>\n

October 8th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –\u00a0<\/strong> Dr. Hentyle Yapp on “\u202fMinor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic”<\/p>\n

September 15th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> – <\/strong>Uyghur Visions: Two Films by Mukaddas Mijit – Conversation with Jenny Chio<\/p>\n

April 4th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> conversation with Larry Ward – “America’s Racial Karma”<\/p>\n

April 1st, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> with Tiara Wilson and Jang Wook Huh – “The Politics of Friendship: Black and Korean Soldiers in U.S. Military Expansion”<\/p>\n

March 16th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> with Karylnee Ejercito and Stanley Fonseca – “Mapping Mobilities Session 5”<\/p>\n

March 10 – April 21, 2021<\/strong><\/a> – Dr. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dr. Brian Chi Hang Fong and Dr. Evyn Espiritu Gandhi – “Migration and Refugee Studies Working Group”<\/p>\n

March 9th, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> Renato Rosaldo – “The Day of Shelly\u2019s Death: The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief(Duke University Press, 2013)”<\/p>\n

March 2nd, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong>\u00a0Professor Deborah Wong. \u201cLouder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko\u201d<\/p>\n

February 24, 2021<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong> Velina Hasu Houston with\u00a0Elizabeth Wong and Philip Kan Gotanda. \u201cIntersections of Asian and Black Cultures in Theatre\u201d (Transpacific Conversations Race Solidarity)<\/p>\n

February 17, 2021<\/strong><\/a>– Tao Leigh Goffe. \u201cHistory\u2019s Emulsion: Hysteria, Surface, and Sexuality in the Black Pacific\u201d (Cornell University)<\/p>\n

November 11th, 2020<\/strong><\/a>– Master Class with Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research | University of the Witwatersrand)<\/p>\n

October 21st, 2020<\/strong><\/a> – Summer Research Symposium; Doctoral students from American Studies and Ethnicity and East Asian Languages and Cultures presented about their summer research activities<\/p>\n

February 22nd, 2020<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Transpacifics Symposium<\/em>, with Petrus Lin (Boston University), Christopher Patterson (University of British Columbia), Maile Arvin (University of Utah) & Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College), Taper Commons Center \u2013 USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n

October 30th, 2019<\/strong><\/a> – Photography and the Bio-politics of Fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War<\/em>,<\/em> presented by Vicente L. Rafael (University of Washington)<\/p>\n

April 11th, 2019<\/strong><\/a> – Sex Work, Media Networks and Transpacific Histories of Affect<\/em>,<\/em> a talk by Lily Wong (American University)<\/p>\n

December 6th, 2018<\/strong><\/a> – The More-Than-Human Anthropocene<\/em>,<\/em> presented by Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)<\/p>\n

October 26th, 2018<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Transpacific Studies at USC and UCLA: A Social Gathering<\/em>, USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n

November 18th, 2015<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 From Sanctuary to Skid Row: Governmentality and the Resettlement of Central Americans in Los Angeles<\/em>, presented by Cindy I-Fen Cheng (UW-Madison)<\/p>\n

March 24th, 2015<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Launch of The Divine Eye and the Diaspora by Janet Hoskins \u2013 Sponsored by the Center for Transpacific Studies & the Center for Immigration and Integration<\/em><\/p>\n

January 23rd \u2013 24th, 2015<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Transpacific Re-Orientations: Religion, Spirituality and the Invisible Connections Between Asia and the Americas<\/em><\/p>\n

October 30th, 2014<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field<\/em>\u2013 with editors Janet Hoskins & Viet Thanh Nguyen and contributors Akira Mizuta Lippit, Nancy Lutkehaus, John Carlos Rowe, Yunte Huang & Y\u00ean L\u00ea Espiritu<\/p>\n

October 2nd, 2014<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Making War in Paradise: Race, Empire and Hawaii\u2019s Counterinsurgency in Vietnam War<\/em>, presented by Simeon Man (USC)<\/p>\n

March 5th, 2014<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 The Transpacific Partnership (TPP): A Panel Discussion<\/em>with USC Professors Saori Katada, Daniel Lynch & David Kang (USC)<\/p>\n

February 28th \u2013 March 7th, 2014<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013Transpacific Intimacies: Three Film Screening Series,<\/em> organized by Feng-Mei Heberer (2014-2015 Center for Transpacific Studies Fellow)<\/p>\n

February 3rd, 2014<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 HYPERVISIBILITY and INVISIBILITY: Asian\/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism<\/em>, presented by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Ohio State University)<\/p>\n

January 29th, 2014<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 BX for CTS: Transpacific Cultural Politics in Contemporary Time-Based Art<\/em> \u2013 a book talk and presentation by Meiling Cheng<\/p>\n

December 11th, 2013<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 The Sea is Rising: Narrating Climate Change in the Pacific<\/em>, presented by Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)<\/p>\n

November 13th, 2013<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Postcolonial Subjects of Japanese Military \u2018Comfort Women\u2019: Reconstructing Boundaries, Shifting Identities<\/em>, presented by Na-Young Lee (USC)<\/p>\n

October 23rd, 2013<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Imagining the Nanyang: On National Culture, Postcolonial Archipelagoes, and the Idea(s) of Southeast Asia<\/em>, presented by Brian Bernards (USC)<\/p>\n

April 30th, 2013<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 A poetry reading by Wing Tek Lum<\/p>\n

April 27th, 2013<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Troubled Ocean: Filmmakers Imagine the Pacific<\/em>, film screenings & discussions with John Sayles (Amigo), Vilsoni Hereniko (The Land Has Eyes)<\/p>\n

March 7th, 2013<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Re-Membering the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work<\/em>, presented by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (University of Connecticut)<\/p>\n

February 27th, 2013<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Transnationalism and Vietnamese Studies,<\/em> presented by Lan P. Duong (UC Riverside) & Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (UC Davis)<\/p>\n

January 31st, 2013<\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Aloha America: Hula Circuits as Alternative Archives<\/em>, presented by Adria L. Imada (UC San Diego)<\/p>\n

November 29th, 2012<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 The Pageant of the Pacific: Miguel Covarrubias\u2019s Transpacific Vision and The Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939<\/em>, presented by Nancy Lutkehaus (USC)<\/p>\n

October 16th, 2012<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Bottomhood Is Powerful: Asian American Sexual Positionings<\/em>, presented by Nguyen Tan Hoang (Bryn Mawr College)<\/p>\n

April 8th \u2013 9th, 2011<\/strong> \u2013 Redefining the Pacific Conference<\/em>, USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n

April 23rd, 2010<\/strong> \u2013 The Political Economy of the Pacific Rim Workshop<\/em>, USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n

April 2nd \u2013 April 3rd, 2010<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Transpacific Studies Conference: Homelands, Diasporas and the Movement of Populations,<\/em> USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n

October 30th \u2013 31st, 2009<\/strong> \u2013 Center for Transpacific Studies Workshop,<\/em> USC University Park Campus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPast Events - Center for Transpacific Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Past Events - Center for Transpacific Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Center for Transpacific Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-10T22:16:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/transpacific-studies\/past-events\/\",\"name\":\"Past Events - 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